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Author: Adam

“Stringer Madness”: why has Labour backed a climate denier as its candidate in North Manchester?

18 June, 2024 Adam 1 Comment

In Blackley and Middleton South a vote for Labour will be a vote for a climate inaction Amid all the…

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Posted in: Manchester Labour Party

Stephen Gingell was granted bail – what next?

5 February, 2024 Adam Leave a comment

This a belated update on what’s happened with the criminal case of friend of CEM Stephen Gingell l, which we…

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Posted in: Allyship Filed under: Gingell, imprisonment, Public Order Act, Stephen, wrongful

Oppose a Chadderton Digital Billboard Badvert

24 November, 2023 Adam Leave a comment

So here is a real live example of how advertising companies really seem to want to put a glowing screen…

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Posted in: Badverts, Planning Applications

Therme Manchester was given planning consent on a slightly less insane plan than the last one

16 October, 2023 Adam Leave a comment

Wading through Trafford Council’s planning portal is not a simple thing and it seems that searching for related applications that…

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Posted in: Planning Applications

Continuning to plan for insanity: Therme Manchester is back again

3 August, 2023 Adam Leave a comment

Back in October last year we wrote about a proposed development called Therme Manchester with energy and water requirements equivalent…

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Posted in: How to, Planning Applications, Uncategorized

Can the council already stop environmentally controversial high carbon ads?

5 July, 2023 Adam Leave a comment

Spoiler alert: Yes, we think Manchester City Council already can stop high carbon ads displayed on council assets. You may…

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Posted in: Badverts, Carbon Budgets

If Manchester “leads” on climate why doesn’t it already have a #badverts ban?

27 March, 2023 Adam Leave a comment

Sorry Manchester, you can’t claim to be first in blocking high carbon adverts as you like to do with so…

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Posted in: Badverts

A decade on 10 MCC “senior leaders” still carbon illiterate

20 February, 2023 Adam Leave a comment

The story of Manchester City Council’s journey on action towards limiting the impacts of climate change since 2009 cannot be…

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Posted in: Manchester City Council Filed under: carbon literacy

Riding on Mayor Andy’s coat tails: CEM reflections from the GM Green Summit 2022

1 December, 2022 Adam Leave a comment

A few weeks have passed and the dust settled on the fifth Greater Manchester Green Summit, this year held in…

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Posted in: Bev Craig, Greater Manchester Combined Authority, Mayor's Green Summit

Planning for insanity with Therme Manchester – a new small town coming to Trafford with no environmental impact assessment

22 October, 2022 Adam 4 Comments

Calum of the core group at CEM brought our attention to a semi-recent news article about demolishing EventCity in Trafford…

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Posted in: Carbon Budgets, Planning Applications

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